Dr. Zhou joined the University of Dundee as a Lecturer in January 2023. He obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London. Prior to this, he held a BEng degree in Engineering Mechanics, and MSc degree in Solid Mechanics from Peking University. His PhD study was funded by the President’s PhD Scholarship of Imperial College London, and his PhD thesis was awarded the 'Unwin Postgraduate Prize' by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in recognition of the best thesis submitted in the academic year of 2019. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CzJzcp4AAAAJ&hl=en https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.zhou15